BERRI S.A.

BERRI – 18^TH

In South Australia now, had to dump some vegies at the border at least we didn’t have any more fruit which we had to offload before we got into Mildura.
Berri is a pretty town right on the Murray with so many choices where to camp, although some designated areas in the Murray River National Park were under water still from the last lot of flooding. 

We are presently camped in a great spot at Martins Bend Park which is a council area where camping is allowed free of charge for up to 30days. It is right on the Murray and a very pretty area – again recovering from the flooding though. There are lots of camping spots amongst the trees, you need to be self sufficient as there is no power and only an outside water tap at the toilet block and the water is unsuitable for drinking.

We bought a shrimp net to catch shrimps for bait and a yabbie ‘opera house’ net. So far we have caught quite a few yabbies and cooked some up last night to ‘test’ them out – not bad but rather messy things. The shrimps jump about all over the place when you are trying to get them out of the net and Ian has done a bit of fishing with them but so far no success. We bought some worms too but thinking I was doing a good thing I put them in the fridge to find out next day they weren’t too happy about that –oh well, live and learn.

Tomorrow we are off on a river cruise with a CMCA charter from Adelaide who are staying here too and who kindly invited us along.

We’ve met heaps of friendly people and it’s a real test for the memory remembering all their names.